The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-20
Notes of The stage.

Ellen Terry is forty-seven years Of age, and il
said 20 look ir off the stage.
Lolita mas $3.50. 900 invested in mortgages and
800, 900 in "A large hat factory in New York
She 10 the richest actress in America.
Minnie Palmer will impersonate four different
charact ers her new play by Leonard Grover,
and in one act will wear $3.50, 900 worth of dia
monds.
James " Cooke who formerly belonged here.
with the newspapers and theaters, is expected
20 watt in ct any moment in advance of .'Tin
Soldier"
The receipts for the Edwin Booth and Law
renee Barrett performances have thus far aver
aged nearly $25, 900 per week, the largest ever
taken by any combination.
deacon Brodie," the latest play on the "Jim
the Penman" order. is of the double-life order
Of plays. and the theme is said to be handled
with great power and originality.
Charley Reed. who has taken Frank Danie1s's
place Old Sport. "A Rag Baby" is making
a great hit in the He plays it entirely DIFF
ferent from Daniels but is said TO show quite as
much humor in the role.
There is another American opera. IL is stYe-
tiva,r by Ion Arnold and George Morgan, and is
TO be given a hearing in New York. It's scene is
New Mexico, and the modest prediction is made
that IL will equal any opera yet produced by
Gilbert and Sullivan.
Louis James and Marie Wainwright are to
produce play said to have been left to Fanny
Davenport by her father. It will be called
Gomez de la Vegas" and is announced for rep
during the second week il January.
The FIRE boys at No. engine-house. on Sixth
street. are rehearsng themselves and their
horses at odd moments. and are going to try to
get that $500 offered for any company that
hitch up and get out quicker than the people In
THE Still Alarm" who go through the same
performance on the stage.
Young Hoffman, the boy pianist, who has
caused snch a sensation in England, devotes
only an hour and q half day TO practice The
price paid for his coming American tour is
go. 900. The boy is paid by his father one cent
for each piece he plays in public, two cents If
the selection be unusually difficult one
Charles Dickens, OF London. England, is meet
ing with crowded houses wherever he goes,
his lecturiug tour in this country. He makes
no pretentions 70 elocution or oTatory, but reads
with great effect and never fails to delight his
hearers Dir. Dickens will deliver the second
lecture In the Indianapolis lecture course
Dec 2
Colonel AcCauI says it costs him $4,000 at
least TO produce comic opera. He has made
money out OF all Gilbert & Sullivan's operas
except "RudGygore,' and The Mikado" has
brought him more money than any other opera
In room in New York be has stored costumes
that cost hra 100000, and which would not
bring SO, 600 to-day.
John a Elsers tour with Aladdin opened
at Utica. y. r., Monday night. This produc-
ton is not TO be COMPOUNDED with the burlesque
arabian Nights recently seen at the Standard
Theater. Mr.. Ellsler first produced aladdin,
or the Wonderful Lamp in 1857, and has re-
t.
El.sler will occasionally appear Kazrac, q
role with which he has been long identified.
Hoyt says his comedy is quieter than
his previous efforts. Outside of two explosions
three fights. the total destruction of baggage
truck. the STAYING up of seven trunks by the
baggage-man, the obliteration of everything
bur the four walls during five minutes for re-
freshments," fierce battle between a bulldog
and Western hog. and collision of two trains
there Is very little noisy business in the piece.
Edwin Booth and Lawrence Barrett will APP
pear in this city April q and % On Friday
evening they will give s'0theio," and Satur-
daY evening Julius Caesar" The matinee bill
will &c decioed upon later, and in the meantime,
manager Dickson desires suggestions from thea
ter-eoers as 20 what they would prefer. ''Mer-
chant Of Venice King Lear" or Hamlet can
Dc given. Messrs. Dickson & Talbot have
entered into contract to pay IS 500 for the
three performances
Mrs. Potfer's dresses in LOYAL Love- are
described by N Frenchulan who saw them at
Worth's a. follows: They are quite fascinating
enough 70 reconcile husbands suffering from q
disordered spleen. One is a fine white cloth
braided in gold over q white silk skirt; the waist
IL made with q yoke. which is closely en- broid-
cred in gold with broad gold -colored ribbons
falling from he side in long loose loops to the
bottom 81 the skirt Another il mads of blue